Ralph Bristow
Ralph E. Bristow, 78,
of Waynesville died at 12:32 a.m. Thursday, May 30, 2002, at the
DeWitt County Nursing Home, rural Clinton.
A graveside service
will be at 10 a.m. Monday, June 3, at Evergreen Cemetery,
Waynesville, with the Rev. Al Simonson officiating.
There will be no
visitation.
Quiram Funeral Home
in Atlanta is in charge of arrangements.
Bristow was a
mechanic before he retired in 1981. For many years he was the
Waynesville Township assessor and served on the Waynesville Fire
Department.
He was born Aug. 12,
1923, at rural Atlanta to Dallas and Adeline Wilson Bristow. He
married Polly A. Price in Atlanta on Feb. 9, 1946. She died Oct. 22,
2000.
Surviving are three
sons, Bob Bristow of Waynesville, Bill Bristow of Clinton and Dan
(and Shawn) Bristow of Waynesville; seven grandchildren; four
great-grandchildren; three sisters, Reba Holmes of Mount Pulaski,
Lois Miller of Witt and Virginia Bannister of Lincoln; one brother,
Ansel Bristow of McLean; and several nieces and nephews.
He was also preceded
in death by one sister and three brothers.
He enjoyed working
with antique cars, fishing and spending time with his grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to a
charity of the donor’s choice.
Deborah Klein
Deborah Lynn Klein, 48, of Riverton died at 2:10 a.m. Friday, May
24, 2002, at her home.
A
memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 1, at Mount
Pulaski United Methodist Church.
Burial will be in Mount Pulaski Cemetery.
Dawson and Wikoff Funeral Home of Illiopolis is in charge of
arrangements.
Mrs. Klein was a registered nurse employed as a home health-care
surveyor with the Department of Public Health. She had also worked
for 14 years as a labor and delivery nurse at Memorial Medical
Center in Springfield.
She
was born Oct. 11, 1953, in Lincoln to Dean and Mary "Peggy" Downing
Scott. She married Terry Klein in 1989.
Surviving are her husband, of Riverton; her parents, of Mount
Pulaski; one daughter, Shannon Vincent of Springfield; one son,
Matthew Charles Vincent and wife Andra of Springfield; and three
sisters, Kathy Richardson and husband Franklin of Mesa, Ariz., Judy
Emrick and husband Lyndel of Mount Pulaski, and Gloria Reynolds and
husband Dave of Springfield.
She
was a member of Mount Pulaski United Methodist Church.
Memorials may be made to her church or to the American Diabetes
Association.
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Kenneth Hadden
Kenneth Lynn Hadden,
53, of Rushville, formerly of Tuscola, Lincoln and Decatur, died at
4:26 a.m. Sunday, May 26, 2002, at Memorial Medical Center in
Springfield.
Cremation rites were
accorded by Cremation Services of Central Illinois in Chatham.
A memorial service
will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 1, at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s
Witnesses, 111 Northville in Lincoln. Raymond Pech will officiate.
Staab Polk Memorial
Home in Chatham is in charge of arrangements.
Hadden once worked as
an electrical engineer for BLDD, an architectural firm in Decatur.
He was a U.S. Navy
veteran of the Vietnam War.
He was born Dec. 4,
1948, in Primrow, Iowa, to Thomas V. and Niva E. Scott Hadden. He
married Trudy Shumard on Dec. 12, 1997. She survives.
Other survivors are
five children, two stepchildren, five grandchildren, two sisters,
two brothers and his mother.
He was preceded in
death by his father.
He was a devoted
Jehovah’s Witness.
Memorials may be made
to the American Cancer Society.
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